and I agreed with that.

however tactically he was left wanting again. the most precocious young attacking talent in the league and he's unused. no wonder he's looking to leave. move a poor moon? no leave him. take off a useless Sutcliffe? no leave him.

he's incapable of Making in game decisions that aren't pre planned. Powell had him in his pocket again

What does make me sad is that international union is miles ahead of league at the moment. Last night in a bit of drizzle the handling was awful, unforced dropped balls are all too common in the game.

I think he should have started the youngster at FB and played Sutcliffe at centre however the poor handling will have done for any game plan as we just couldn't build any momentum at all. The players must take the blame for this one.

If we lose Jack Walker because McNumb fails to play him then I will be furious. He is destined to be a star so give him game time.



Time to ship out Briscoe too and get a replacement. I hope the rumours of Myler aren't true.

The coach has to accept blame too. Playing 1 man out rugby means the defence are dominating and up fast. With some better game plan to move the ball it would have held them back. All in all, professional players should be able to hold a ball (in not atrocious conditions) and a professional coach should be able to set up his team to offer more.



Walker is a better player than Handley so made sense to start him at fb and Sutty at centre. To not even address this during the game is poor management

Aside from the ridiculous amount of junior grade dropsies, i think we need to all get some proper perspective about this side, and its limitations. Our 2015 side was good but not great, and since we have lost two truly great players, replaced them with very little and other old players are 2 years more advanced.to top it off our world class FB came up with the game changing play against us and it was clear throughout we had nothing like that within us, just barge and hope.



We are still in a great position and in with a shot at both competitions but we no longer have the personel to believe we have a shot at beating the top sides in the big games if they are at the top of their game on the day.

Juan, you are talking absolute rubbish mate. You simply can not see some of the things that go on, on the tv, close up replays I give you, but not the full vision like you can at a game. Your biase on JJB knows no bounds, here it is completely clueless. No one is arguing with you on errors, in fact nobody is saying he wasn't rushing out, that was part of the problem he was playing his own game and leaving problems for others. He is not fit, that is clear, his arms are knackered, he can not get them round and he is flapping, do you not notice he never makes a tackle round the legs? They ran round him numerous times in that first half, and he was shoved off three times, that was why I commented at half time. That is fact, not your view that can not see it from thousands of miles away. Let me make it clear, nobody is questioning JJB's attitude and desire.



I agree with you on Sutcliffe and Briscoe who were woeful, although not necessarily the Eden try. I also think Sutcliffe was at fault with the third try where it was clear what Millington was doing, he was pointing for it, and Sutcliffe was looking right at it but didn't read it. But that is what happens when players play roles they are not up to.

This gets a bit boring to be honest. You would be 100% correct in an isolated match. But come on, how many times have we repeated this now in games? 39 missed tackles is nothing new for us this year, and neither is low percentages. If the coach can't fix that, then where does the blame really lie?

McDermott looked a broken man at the after match interviews. Looked like someone who Simply does not have the answers and the fact layers are not responding to him. I hope he realises that either he is not up to it anymore and should stand aside. Or stop being so loyal to his favourites who are clearly letting him down. If he and GH intend for him to stay in for next year they need to tell the players they are either done after this year or playing for a contract next year. Tony smith has done this at Warrington and they are well on with recruiting for next year were as we are standing still

If Hardaker, Gale and McShane were playing for Leeds, under the coaching of Powell, there may have been a different result.

Leeds' loss has been Castleford's gain.

There is no place on this board for such well thought out comments like this , stop it immediately

Your key was the coaching. Not sure putting them in this current set up would make much difference, and McShane simply isn't anything close to Parcell anyway.